Forum: Rails deployment Mongrel - Missing required gems - but THEY ARE THERE!

Hi guys,

the strangest thing is all the below was not happening before this
latest deployment, attempting to use Capistrano, didn't work so manually
deploying.

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RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.3.1
RUBY VERSION: 1.8.6
Rails 2.3.2
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Now I am using formtastic gem for my forms.
in my environment.rb I have:
config.gem 'justinfrench-formtastic', :lib => 'formtastic', :source =>
'http://gems.github.com'

works fine locally of course, and funny it worked the first deployment
on the same host. (Joyent shared accelerator)


Now when i deploy and restart mongrel, here's what I get in a loop:

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** Starting Rails with production environment...
Missing these required gems:
  justinfrench-formtastic

You're running:
  ruby 1.8.6.368 at /usr/local/bin/ruby18
  rubygems 1.3.1 at /.gem/ruby/1.8, /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8

Run `rake gems:install` to install the missing gems.
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Now when I check my gems
rake gems
it prints
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 - [I] justinfrench-formtastic

I = Installed
F = Frozen
R = Framework (loaded before rails starts)
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so the gems is there right!?
I mean it was installed before the very first deployment.
and now if i run rake gems:install
nothing happens!
rake gems:install --trace
** Invoke gems:install (first_time)
** Invoke gems:base (first_time)
** Execute gems:base
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute gems:install

I can also see the gem listed in the "gem list"
*** LOCAL GEMS ***
...
justinfrench-formtastic (0.2.4)
...

So not sure what is happening :S

Why can't mongrel find the gem if it is installed an was working fine
before!
Where should i even start looking! :S

Driving me nuts for days now! please help!!
thanks

probably a path issue.

try re-installing, or updating the $Path

Bac

probably a path issue.

try re-installing, or updating the $Path